Last Exit to Brooklyn (movie)
| Last Exit to Brooklyn | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Uli Edel |
| Written by | Desmond Nakano Hubert Selby Jr. (novel) |
| Produced by | Bernd Eichinger |
| Starring | Stephen Lang Jennifer Jason Leigh Burt Young Peter Dobson Jerry Orbach |
| Cinematography | Stefan Czapsky |
| Edited by | Peter Przygodda |
| Music by | Mark Knopfler |
| Distributed by | Summit Entertainment |
Release date | 1989 |
Running time | 102 minutes |
| Countries | West Germany, UK |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,730,005 (USA) |
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1989 English-language British-German drama movie, directed by Uli Edel, and based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr.[1][2][3]
Plot
[change | change source]In the 1950s in Brooklyn, a group of prostitutes, unionist activists and drag queens lead difficult lives, an existence of drugs, crime and violence in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Vincent Canby (May 2, 1990). "A Brutal, Elegiac 'Last Exit,' Unrelieved by Hope". The New York Times.
- ↑ Shelia Benson (May 4, 1990). "A Brutal, Theatrical Mix Runs Through Edel's 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'". The Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Anthony DePalma (April 27, 2004). "Hubert Selby Jr. Dies at 75; Wrote 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'". The New York Times.
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Categories:
- English-language movies
- 1989 drama movies
- 1980s LGBT movies
- American drama movies
- American LGBT movies
- British drama movies
- German drama movies
- LGBT drama movies
- Movies about domestic violence
- Movies about prostitution
- Movies based on books
- Movies set in Brooklyn
- Movies set in the 1950s
- Transgender in movies
- Movies directed by Uli Edel